Last minute revisions

As you all know, this year I took on the responsibility of co-editing the Sharon Springs Central School yearbook. Now, I am facing the final deadline. Tomorrow, the last thirty or so pages will be submitted to Lifetouch, and what has been a very long journey will finally be over. I’m not entirely sure what I will be doing with myself once this is all over.

Sharon Spring Clarions from 2010, 2011 (Olivia Hatalsky)

For most of my senior year now, I have holed up in the yearbook room and sat in my swivel chair typing away, scanning and resizing pictures, and nit-picking about page layout and fonts. The idea that the yearbook is almost complete leaves me feeling much like I did on the final night of my play, “what does one do with this extra time one finds herself with now?”

The last deadline being tomorrow, today I get to go through and make any last minute changes I can think of. I am reviewing the senior pages for the umpteenth time, scrutinizing the last few activity pages to make sure everything is in line, quite literally. I need to finish coming up with the letter from the editors and hoping that it is witty enough to be engaging and amusing, but powerful.

I just wrote an entire paragraph about what still needs to be done, but really, it’s not much. An hour, tops. I can’t believe I’m so close to the end of this, after months and months.

Since I’m in the home stretch, that means sitting back, listening to every remix of Billy Idol’s “White Wedding,” and going through the last pages, one by one.

My greatest hope is that I have finally put my OCD to good work with taking on yearbook this year, and that along with my friends I have been able to create something beautiful to leave to this school that I am about to be leaving.